I see a lot of similarities between 3d printing and crypto.
3D printing shares some similar attributes to crypto: freedom, power to the people, decentralization.
I remember the 3D printing bubble in 2013. Pic related is DDD.
Most stocks never really recovered, likely due to increased competition as well (crypto has the same problem), but also potentially due to overhyping how disruptive it actually was. Everyone thought we'd be printing houses, but the most common use is prototyping and small scale product development.
Was 3d printing just not disruptive enough? Or are we still 10-15 years out from disruptive tech?
The decentralization idea is a relatively small niche and I feel like crypto appeals to the same audience.
What "black swan" events need to occur for both markets to gain value?
One example might be a nation wide gun ban, so 3d printing hits the spotlight again. For crypto it might be another financial meltdown caused by centralization, but I'm still not convinced about this.
We will be printing 3D houses, shoes, clothes, electronics, you name it. It's just not going to happen as fast as some people would have imagined, we tend to overestimate the short-term and underestimate the long-term effects of any particular technology.
Jacob Gomez
We are a small company and we have started using 3D printed parts inside pilot plant units. its super useful and revolutionary and will disrupt the real estate market, manufacturing
Levi Perez
It's real, will have massive impact on spare parts and small-scale production.
Bentley Morris
>a sensible post on Jow Forums >utterly ignored, zero replies Sounds about right
Julian Collins
No blackswan needed to pump crypto back up again. The institutions will prop up and mark up the price once the supply is absorbed. This is just how it works. Institutions buying up at whole-sale prices > selling it to normies at retail price.
Nolan Cruz
3d printing is like the IoT, pointless and stupid
Brody Cruz
3d printing technology is moving very quickly and will soon be a viable alternative for functional parts (as opposed to prototyping) in small runs.
Incidently PRTX is a very lowcap shitcoin on cryptobridge that has 3d printing on its roadmap. I bought $300 worth a while back, which equates to 1% of coins in circulation, lol.
Brandon Price
can you 3d print a handcuff? asking for a friend
Noah Stewart
3D printing is for hobbyists and will remain so. Machining is not that expensive nor was it in need of being disrupted. If you can make a CAD of something for 3D printing, you can also just send it to a machine shop and have it shipped to you at minimal costs.
What's being memed these days are things like lab-grown organs or meat. That's really stretching the 3D printing label and has pretty much nothing to do with it technology wise.
Carson Harris
This is BS. I know several aerospace companies that are using DMLS and SLS parts in aircraft right now.
Ian Thomas
sla printing can print functional parts whareas fdm printing can print some things ok but mainly limited to toys.
Jonathan Brooks
for freedom and decentralization to make either one valuable (from an investment standpoint), i think there has to be a major black swan event similar to 2008. Freedom and decentralization are still relatively niche concepts constrained to a small community of fanatics.
For 3d printing to become really valuable, I think it has to take over a substantial portion of manufacturing and become normalized. In this case, decentralization isn't the value and the market cap is driven by B2B, not B2C.
For decentralization to make 3d printing valuable, a black swan event like a nationwide gun ban would normalize having a 3d printer in each house. In this case decentralization/freedom is the value and 3d printing's market cap is driven by B2C, not B2B.
3D printing will be huge. People seem to think because the media/normie craze has died down, that the technology is dead. We will definitely depend on 3D printing the more we delve into nanotechnology.
Eli Brooks
SpaceX relies on 3d printerss to build cheaper and more durable parts for their rocket engines, I'd say 3d printing is doing a lot of stuff currently. It just applies less to consumer shit currently, but whatever gets used a lot in big industries eventually makes it to the mainstream as well
Alexander Butler
how on Earth you go from "nationwide gun ban" to sudden explosion in 3d printing popularity? here in Europe nobody would care and even in US that would just not work like that, even real demand driver like war has much simpler solution of just using already existing. unreported or stolen guns... and even if, compared to enforcing real effective ban on guns controlling 3d printing supplies needed for homemade ones is much easier
same with financial meltdown, you can just salvage what you need from unused equipment, stole stuff or smuggle it from Taiwan, if somehow there is no trade then 3d printing as it exists today is probably dead anyway
the way for 3d printing to go big is to be good economical alternative not a quick patch to fix sudden meltdown, you don't just add it on top of existing system, it changes how it operate
Landon Ross
this, average customer can just go and buy whatever widget he needs in supermarket or order it online if it's something rare, "you can print broken part of electric drill" may sound nice, but it's still easier to just buy replacement part...
now if would figure how to make having unique and custom made furniture etc trendy you could be onto something, but then again it's economically more viable to just have some specialized shop print you those designs...
Lucas Bell
>nationwide gun ban would normalize having a 3d printer in each house in almost every situation where you need to have produce enough of something to supply the whole nation 3d printing is not the answer, it just not where it's strength is user
Jayden Ortiz
im more thinking of if guns become illegal and the main method for getting one is to print it.
printing replacement parts for something that breaks in a normal household is a bad use case for 3d printing. specialized parts is another matter.
I guess i don't really see the b2c usecase unless we literally are able to print food at some point, which still isn't good imo.
Dylan Foster
I bought some shares in a metal 3d printing company recently...
Adrian Parker
3d printing will only be good for prototyping and the medical field. The problem is the way things are built. 3d printed object will never be as strong as something that is injected or casted. Im well versed in both rapid prototyping and crypto. They are not the same.
Brayden Morales
can you explain how, please? Why to ask for decentralized printing and 3D printing, and not just to go to a fabric and ask for the product' At the end of the day the cost of decentralized printing and fabric manifacturieres shouldn't be the same, if summed up?
Ryan Lopez
What's the next bubble?
Dominic Diaz
when I have kids Im gonna get a good 3d printer and print all their toys
Aaron Lopez
that's very narrow use case, drugs are already illegal and even if you could grow some yourself most drugs are produced in specialized facilities and/or smuggled in, I would guess that even when alcohol was illegal in US it was still the case that minority was supplying the masses - even if barrier to entry was super low the economy of scale still wins, same with guns: Frank or Joe would just print enough to supply all the people around, even when you buy printer to print guns yourself - just how many will you print? one a day? lol no, this is the key point here, you don't buy 3d printer to print something once
